Ubuntu

Consumer hard drives typically make many attempts to read a bad sector, causing hangs in RAID arrays. A quick way to solve the issue without having to buy more expensive “RAID-compatible” drives is to enable error recovery control, setting a time limit on the retries. Some drives support this; others do not. What follows is a simple one-liner that, when added to the system crontab, sets error recovery control to 7 seconds in all the drives in the array that support ERC.